Featured talk by Julian Yates (Univ. of Delaware), with response from Liza Blake (New York Univ.), at Speculative Medievalisms 2: A Laboratory-Atelier, held at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, on 16 September 2011 (organized and sponsored by the BABEL Working Group, the Petropunk Collective, and the Doctoral Program in English and Medieval Studies @The Graduate Center, CUNY). More information available here: http://speculativemedievalisms.blogspot.com/.